Homotopy properties of decomposition spaces
The purpose of this paper is to present certain facts and results showing a way through which simplicial homotopy theory can be used in the study of Auslander-Goldman-Brauer groups of Azumaya algebras over commutative rings.
Let X and Y be one-dimensional Peano continua. If the fundamental groups of X and Y are isomorphic, then X and Y are homotopy equivalent. Every homomorphism from the fundamental group of X to that of Y is a composition of a homomorphism induced from a continuous map and a base point change isomorphism.
This is a survey of the results on stable homotopy types of polyhedra of small dimensions, mainly obtained by H.-J. Baues and the author [3, 5, 6]. The proofs are based on the technique of matrix problems (bimodule categories).
This is the first part of a paper that classifies 2-compact groups. In this first part we formulate a general classification scheme for 2-compact groups in terms of their maximal torus normalizer pairs. We apply this general classification procedure to the simple 2-compact groups of the A-family and show that any simple 2-compact group that is locally isomorphic to PGL(n+1,ℂ) is uniquely N-determined. Thus there are no other 2-compact groups in the A-family than the ones we already know. We also...
This is the second part of a paper about the classification of 2-compact groups. In the first part we set up a general classification procedure and applied it to the simple 2-compact groups of the A-family. In this second part we deal with the other simple Lie groups and with the exotic simple 2-compact group DI(4). We show that all simple 2-compact groups are uniquely N-determined and conclude that all connected 2-compact groups are uniquely N-determined. This means that two connected 2-compact...
One of the major problems in the homotopy theory of finite loop spaces is the classification problem for p-compact groups. It has been proposed to use the maximal torus normalizer (which at an odd prime essentially means the Weyl group) as the distinguishing invariant. We show here that the maximal torus normalizer does indeed classify many p-compact groups up to isomorphism when p is an odd prime.